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It's just about the only word I can understand when Ed Orgeron says it
LOL, I love it when Harlan talks about the high tension wires and Southern counties!! Hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaaU3NziwGI&frags=pl%2Cwn
On the West Coast we called them "Pe Kahns". Pee-cans sounds like something you whizz in.
PIE !! Pie’s coming
Pee Kahn is technically correct although I still like to say Pee Can.
Probably because it has a dual meaning on long road trips.
What's weird for me, is I actually use both. If I'm referring to just pecans alone I say it like pe-KAHN. But if I'm referring to a pie, i usually say Pee Can pie. Go figure
I hate to muddy the water, but let me establish my credentials first: my grandparents were pecan tree growing farmers in S. Ga., and as southern as fried chicken, and I was taught Pe-kahn, not Pe-can.
Crazy. I’m from south Ga as well and it’s called Pe-can. I’ve never heard anyone from Dublin south say it any other way.
This video may explain the reason for the difference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaaU3NziwGI&frags=pl%2Cwn
A pecan taste better than a pakahn. Just saying
Based on the responses, I'm thinking it's all based on the localized dialect. One county says pe-cans, two counties over it's pe-kahn.
Had a friend in college that got transferred from Athens to Albany Ga with his Job. Said the hardest thing he had to do at first was pronounce Albany as the locals did. He grew up in Metro Atl where we most all pronounce it All-Ba-Nee. He married a life long Albany girl that made sure he said it "right." Either All-Ben- Nee or All-Benny depending on what side of town you were from. I took his word on it and always told his wife "I enjoyed my visit to All-Benny......."
Down here in Waycross we definitely pronounce it All-Benny. Lol.
There is a very small town nearby called Hoboken which I've only ever heard it pronounced Ho-bo-ken, exactly as it's spelled. Well one day in the late 90's I was at a gas pump pumping gas and a man pulls up and asks me if Hob-uh-kin was that way? I made him repeat it twice and finally told him I had never heard of that place in my life. He digs out his map and points to it. I was like ohhhhh Hoboken. Lol. Said he was from Oregon.
As a kid I remember back in the black and white TV shows 'What's my line'. This dude was telling people where they were from within 50 miles by listening to their accent. The people he demonstrated on were from the NE but I agree there are very local differences.
Thanks Bulldawg1982, that reminds me I have some Publix Sugar-free butter pecan ice cream in the freezer. By the way, if you want some sugar-free ice cream that tastes like regular ice cream try Publix sore brand.
Many years ago I read that butter pecan is a favorite of men (the favorite, perhaps). Within weeks of reading that I informed the owner of a newly opened ice cream shop that he was remiss in not stocking butter pecan. Nothing else. Read and apply is all. Oh, yeah. I said BUT tur pe KAHN.
Colorado is like that. People within the state all pronounce it entirely wrong. They say it like Col-ah-ray-oh.